Chess contains the concentrated essence of life: First,
because to win you have to be supremely patient and farseeing; because the game
is built on patterns, whole sequences of moves that have been played before and
will be played again, with slight alterations, in any one match.
Your opponent analyzes the patterns you are playing and uses
them to try to foresee your moves. Allowing
him nothing predictable to base his strategy on gives you a big advantage. In
chess as in life, when people cannot figure out what you are doing, they are
kept in a state of terror-waiting, uncertain, confused.
“Life at court is a serious, melancholy game of chess, which
requires us to draw up our pieces and batteries, form a plan, pursue it, parry
that of our adversary. Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play
the most capricious, unpredictable move." – Jean de La Bruyere 1645-1696
Words by the dark lord >=) as I like to call him.
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